Hey guys n' gals, kind of a serious post in regards to something I've noticed is going on a lot of FA recently.

So, over the past 2/3 days I've started coming across a few different smaller artists who are either tracing or re-colouring art & uploading it with no credit to the original author, just blatant straight up tracing/re-colouring of someone else's image.

Now I get that tracing can help develop someone as an artist, we've all done it & one piece of advice I give to everyone who is looking into drawing is trace things, it helps you learn simple things like shapes & curves etc, but along with this I always make sure to tell them to NEVER upload what they've traced etc, regardless of if they provide credit or not.

Tracing can indirectly harm & artist and can also hurt the person tracing, unfortunately a lot of people tend to see that people have traced and harass them even if they provide credit. If you don't provide credit then you're a scumbag, enough said.

I won't name anyone, but FA suffers from this problem & in all honesty it needs to be stopped, there are even people who will TRACE ART & ATTEMPT TO FISH FOR COMMISSIONS USING IT. I think we can all see why this would be a problem!! Especially if the traced image is really good!!

I know for a fact that I do not condone tracing of my own work without permission.

Although on that note, if anyone at all (doubtful) would like to mess around with some of my pixel art then feel free to hit me up, I can happily provide the smaller version for you to play around with!